Turner`s Tnt Bursts Onto Select Cable Systems

Ted Turner`s new cable station, TNT, was unveiled Monday, with a prime-time broadcast of the restored Gone With the Wind.

And you want to know where you can see TNT.

You can`t see it at all if you don`t have either (a) cable television, or (b) a home satellite dish in your back yard.

If you subscribe to cable, and you still cannot pick up TNT, don`t be surprised. Most systems apparently aren`t carrying the new channel.

``The problem,`` explains Anne Murphy, of Selkirk Communications in Fort Lauderdale, ``is that, in order to add a new channel, most systems have to drop another channel. Most don`t have the room.``

Selkirk has no plans to add TNT, an ``advertiser-supported`` (translation: it has commercials) channel.

Broward cable systems that will carry TNT include American, Jones (starting in January) and Telecable.

The same situation exists in West Palm Beach.

A spokeswoman for one of the largest systems in Palm Beach, National Cable, says the company has no plans to add TNT until an expendable channel can be dropped from the system.

There are dozens of cable systems in Broward and Palm Beach counties. If you want TNT, or any channel that your system doesn`t carry, call your local cable system.

Your cable system`s phone number is on your bill, or in your telephone directory`s Yellow Pages.

Steve Wasserman, the vice-president for news of Post-Newsweek`s WPLG-Ch. 10 in Miami, has been kicked upstairs ... to Jacksonville.

Wasserman has been named vice-president and general manager of WJXT, Post- Newsweek`s Jacksonville station, effective Oct. 21.

``We do not have any candidates (to replace Wasserman) at this time,`` Channel 10 general manager John Garwood said on Monday. ``I`m just accumulating resumes at this point. We`ll be searching both inside and outside the station.``